Born | July 2, 1906 Strasbourg, Germany |
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Died | March 6, 2005 (aged 98) Ithaca, New York, US |
Residence | United States |
Nationality | German American |
Fields | Nuclear Physics |
Institutions | University of Tübingen Cornell University University of Manchester |
Alma mater | University of Frankfurt University of Munich |
Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
octoral students | M K Sundaresan Jeffrey Goldstone Roman Jackiw Freeman Dyson Robert Eugene Marshak John Irwin David J. Thouless P. S. Epstein Gordon L. Shaw |
Known for | Nuclear Physics Stellar nucleosynthesis Quantum electrodynamics |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize for Physics (1967) |